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Mrs. De Sorosis wore a black velvet walking suit and pearl-colored gloves. (Just here I should very much like to know why it is that women with too much figure or no figure at all invariably choose to display their ample or awkward proportions in that most indiscreet material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAUSETTE DE LUNDI. | 4/24/1882 | See Source »

But the awfullest thing that happened was when the girls got together and held an indignation meeting, so to speak. At first I was going to own right up and say it was I, but they seemed so fierce in their wrath that I was almost frightened to death. I...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POOR MISS NOUGAT! | 4/22/1882 | See Source »

At Oxford the system of formal espionage by proctors over students in almost all their actions is still rigidly enforced. Dire are the consequences for the unluckly "undergrad." who is caught by these ever-watchful spies dressed in aught but traditional gown and mortar-board. Proctors, it is said, however...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/20/1882 | See Source »

"Few people," Puck remarks, "discover their mission until it is too late. Perhaps when Anna Dickinson attains her twenty-first year she will find out that her forte is not "Hamlet."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL. | 3/1/1882 | See Source »

THE editorial article on the Busar in the last number of the Crimson seems to have been the cause of no little disturbance among our cotemporaries. But those who complained of it as being too harsh could hardly, we think, have fully realized the facts of the case. A re...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

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